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Title New Jersey's environments [electronic resource] : past, present, and future / edited by Neil M. Maher.

Imprint New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2006.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description vi, 212 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Nature's next exit? or Why New Jersey is as important as Yellowstone National Park / Neil M. Maher -- A natural history of the life and death of a great American city : Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1850-2000 / Bryant Simon -- Solid waste management in "The garbage state" : New Jersey's transformation from landfilling to incineration / Eileen McGurty -- Oysters, public trust, and the law in New Jersey / Bonnie J. McCay -- Citizen expertise and citizen action in the creation of the Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act / Heather Fenyk and David H. Guston -- The free fishing controversy of Sussex County, New Jersey / Robert W. Reynolds -- Tracking New Jersey's changing landscape / Richard Lathrop and John Hasse -- Evaluating the effects of historical land cover change on summertime weather and climate in New Jersey / Paul S. Wichansky ... [et al.] -- A century of natural disasters in a state of changing vulnerability : New Jersey, 1900-1999 / James K. Mitchell.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Environmental policy -- New Jersey.
New Jersey -- Environmental conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Maher, Neil M., 1964-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0813537185 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813537193 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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